I was really, pleasantly, surprised today to find that Dandelion had laid an egg with a good shell. By a process of elimination it must be her egg. Cinnamon has laid two days running, yesterday and the day before, and has never laid more than two days running. Freckles is yet to start laying after going broody.
Dandelion had visited the nest box briefly the day before and the size was the same small size as her soft shelled egg in comparison to Cinnamon’s.
Dandelion lays an egg with a good shell
Dandelion’s egg is on the left and Cinnamon’s egg is on the right. This is such a good sign. Maybe at last Dandelion is going to get in the swing of egg laying. She is looking so good at the moment.
Emerald has also laid three eggs, laying every other day and Speckles has stopped doing sloppy poops probably because of the dry weather and no rain drips to drink.
I lifted Freckles from the nest box every time I went up to the girls and after only two days she has given up so that is also good news. Things seem to be improving all round in the chicken run.
And at last we have summer weather. I opened up the roof panels in the run and the girls had a massive dust bathing session.
Another clump of my bargain tulips have opened in the sun.
The sun has opened the next clump of tulips.
I have talked of the pulmonaria taking over the garden and as you can see the tulips are surrounded by it with a little self seeded forget me not thrown in.
It is so good to have some sun at last and it is forecast to last through the weekend, hurrah!
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So pleased all is well with the girls.And the tulips are pretty.I have 2 nice clumps of the Pulmonaria you gave me, I wish mine spread, I know i could sell some, but mine looks to nice to sell any.
I am amazed yours hasn’t spread. Ours is like a blanket over the whole of the garden and we have to keep pulling it out. It is pretty but it has taken over.
Good news about dandelion’s egg. And I love them tulips!
I am so pleased with Dandelion. I just hope she continues to lay properly. Before this egg we have never eaten an egg from her as they were always broken. I love the tulips too.
Hooray! Excellent news 🙂
Thank you.
And today – Bernadette laid her first egg of the year with a proper shell! Maybe it’s the sunshine!
So pleased that Dandelion has produced a ‘normal’ egg; after the concerns about her health, this shows she is in really good condition.
She has now laid three good shelled eggs and looks great so I am quietly confidant that she is all good at last and in fact is at the best she has ever been. Really good news.